Follow by Email

Top 5 Tips to Develop a Secure Mobile App 2018

Top 5 Tips to Develop a Secure Mobile App 2018:

Security
is emerging as a core consideration in mobile app development. Businesses have
learned that if they are online with their apps, they need to arrange ‘the best
in the market’ security solutions. Past events, like Yahoo’s security breach
when over 2 billion users accounts were affected in a cyber-attack in 2013,
eBay’s HeartBleed bug that put that data of 145 million users at stake in 2014
and Equifax’s security attack when hackers stole the personal security
information of 143 million American credit card holders in 2017, have taught a
lot to new comers in the world of mobile.

These
security attacks will continue to occur as when you make a security wall, its
hack is also tried to create by those, who want to bypass this wall and take
advantages of the data put behind them. As of a report by Cybersecurity
Ventures, it’s been predicted that cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion
annually by 2021.

These statistics
show that businesses, which are launching apps today or businesses, which
already own apps online, need to take some strong steps to secure the apps.
Here are the key tips to do that.

Prevent the Injection:

The injection is one the top risks associated with the apps based on SQL
database, NOSQL, OS and LDAP. The OWASP
Top 10 Web Application Vulnerabilities list 2017 listed the injection as the
top technique used by hackers to breach the data of an app or website.

SQL Injection is one the common types of injections. In SQL injection un-trusted
source enters data in the app. The most common entry points include shopping
cars, sigh up forms and login forms.

SQL is the most common language as most the databases are based on it and
also, it does not require much expertise. If you prevent your site from
Injection, you take the basic step to secure your site.

Encrypt your app’s communications:

Encryption is another step you can take to secure your app particularly if
it’s exchanging valuable data or information. Also, make sure your app or
website is not enabled with low quality encryption as attackers can install
stolen certificates allowing them to hide and stay undetected when HTTPS
solutions cannot access all keys and certificate.

It has already happened when attackers stolen information from 100
employees of eBay and get access to the company’s internal network and then get
access to data of millions of customers. Hackers also remain undetected to eBay’s
system until company detected them in 229 days.

When in encrypting a mobile app, make sure that software and servers are
communicating with each other via HTTPS connections.

Ensure better password security:

An app using login also needs password security otherwise accounts of users
to the app can be hacked. Adobe has faced the similar problem in 2013 when the
company did not stored passwords securely. In many cases of mobile apps saving
password, passwords are stored unencrypted which can make them vulnerable to
attacks.

Implement multifactor authentication:

Now more and more apps and websites are using the multifactor
authentication. Companies like Google, Apple and Yahoo have already applied the
multifactor authentication on their accounts. The multifactor authentication
zeros cases in which hackers are able to get passwords of victims by any way
and get access to accounts. When enabled, the multifactor authentication
requires a user to reconfirm the login to its own account by OTP or other
mediums.

Conduct regular security audit:

In spite of implementing the better than the best security solutions in an
app, never forget to conduct the security audit and take it as a regular habit.
You just cannot implement security at once and forget about that. When security
is implemented, hackers start working to get ways to it. So keep tabs on all
your security measures and keep checking them time after time.

Author Bio:- Sofia is a
digital marketing expert in Rapidsoft
Technologies, a prominent mobile app development company which provides
Android and iOS app
development services across the global. She loves to write on latest mobile
trends, mobile technologies, startups and enterprises.